Both. And beginning to study the reversal of the migration flow - that is, Italy becoming a net receiver of immigrants. The bloody country is still in denial about that - doesn't have any proper immigration policies.
The xenophobic Northern League (not only against actual foreigners but also Southern Italians) headed a town council somewhere in Veneto (Venice region) and was advertising in Argentina to attract immigrants of Italian-VENETO origin!
Don't worry about the plonk - not all of those old Italian guys make good wine; I've tasted plenty of plonk on both sides of the pond. And can't afford anything but plonk at this point.
But usually can't eat cheap cheese here because it tends to be from cow's milk, which I can't digest.
Back to topics relating at least periphally to military history: in Perugia this summer, happened on a new plaque on an antique building in the city centre which had been used as a prison for political opponents first by the local fascists, later by the Gestapo when the Nazis took over in 1943 after the fall of Mussolini and establishment of the puppet-state Republic of Salò. Long list of martyrs.
In the nearby town of Gubbio there is a shrine to the 40 martyrs who were shot as a reprisal by the Nazis - they were just ordinary townspeople, not partisans, Jews or anyone else fascists would have a particular reason to target.
http://www.comune.gubbio.pg.it/40martiri/default.htm Mausoleum of the Forty Martyrs (I'm keeping the original spelling and syntax...)
It is a building in the shape of a chapel built by the commitee "pro forty martyrs", on the project of the Architect Pietro Frenguelli of Perugia, on the place where 40 innocent hostages were shot by nazist troops on the 22nd June 1944, for retaliation after an operation of the partisans.
Their names, their age:
Allegrucci Giuseppe, years 34
Baldelli Carlo, years 34
Baldoni Virgilio, years 38
Bartolini Sante, years 55
Battaglini Enea, years 20
Bedini Ferdinando, years 39
Bedini Francesco, years 50
Bellucci ubaldo, years 34
Cacciamani Cesare, years 52
Cacciamani Enrico, years 50
Cacciamani Giuseppe, years 19
Farabi Gino, years 39
Felizianetti Alberto, years 23
Gaggioli Francesco, years 17
Ghigi Miranda, years 30
Ghigi Zelinda, years 61
Lisarelli Alessandro, years 23
Marchegiani Raffaele, years 57
Mariotti Ubaldo, years 18
Migliarini Innocenzo, years 40
Minelli Guerrino, years 27
Minelli Luigi, years 42
Moretti Franco, years 21
Moretti Luigi, years 22
Pannacci Gustavo, years 36
Paoletti Marino, years 30
Piccotti Antilio, years 41
Pierotti Francesco, years 40
Profili Guido, years 54
Rampini Raffaele, years 43
Rogari Nazzareno, years 50
Romanelli Gastone, years 17
Roncigli Vittorio, years 38
Roselli Luciano, years 23
Rossi Domenico, years 41
Rossi Francesco, years 49
Scarabotta Enrico, years 36
Sollevanti Giacomo,years 18
Tomarelli Luigi, years 61
Zizolfi Giovanni , years 23
